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Former India batter Subramaniam Badrinath has questioned the team management over the continuous snub of Sanju Samson from the T20I side. He also slammed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) brass for including Shubman Gill as vice-captain despite the batter's underwhelming stats in the format. Badrinath made the remarks on-air after Gill was dismissed for a golden duck during the second T20I between India and South Africa. The 45-year-old admitted that it's a bit 'painful' to see Samson warm the bench despite scoring three T20I hundreds in the last 12 months. "Sanju Samson has scored three hundreds. We are talking about T20 cricket, and he has three hundreds. What more do you want as a player? It is a little painful to see a player who has performed so well warming the bench," said Badrinath, as quoted by India Today. Gill, on the other hand, has been below average in the format and has scored just 263 runs at an average of 23.90 in his last...

The Pakistan Cricket Board is unhappy with the International Cricket Council after the global governing body released a promotional poster of next year's T20 World Cup ticket sales without the country's captain Salman Ali Agha on it. A reliable source in the PCB said the matter had been taken up with the ICC as the promotional poster featured only five captains — Suryakumar Yadav (India), Aiden Markram (South Africa), Mitchell Marsh (Australia), Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka) and Harry Brook (England). “We faced the same issues when the Asia Cup was held a few months back and that time the broadcasters had started a promotional campaign without our captain featuring in it,” the source said. He said it was only after the PCB spoke to the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the situation changed. “We are facing a similar situation this time as the ICC has not projected our captain on the promotional poster for ticket sales,” he added. He said while Pakistan was not in the top five teams ...

Masood Azhar, the chief of the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), has admitted he paid a high price for trying to escape from jail in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1990s. He was heard narrating the failed attempt to escape from jail by digging a tunnel in an audio clip of his speech, likely from an event in Pakistan. His voice reverberated in the loudspeaker, indicating the event was held in an open area. The audio clip of the terrorist most wanted by India, who masterminded the attack on parliament in 2001, Mumbai in 2008 and many others, has been confirmed as genuine by intelligence sources. Mazood Azhar in the audio was heard breaking down as he recalled how his attempt to escape from Jammu and Kashmir's Kot Bhalwal jail by digging a tunnel failed on the day he planned to escape. This jail in the Jammu region is a high-security facility known for keeping some of the most wanted terrorists India had caught. In the audio clip, the JeM chief said he had been diggin...

Controversial British adult film star Bonnie Blue will be deported from Indonesia's Bali island, an immigration official said Friday, after earlier receiving a small fine for traffic violations. Local police last week raided a studio in Badung, a popular tourist district near the resort island's capital, Denpasar, detaining Blue, 26, whose real name is Tia Billinger. Three men -- two Britons and an Australian -- were also taken on suspicion of producing pornographic content after the raid. Police said, however, they found no evidence of adult material.  Husnan Handano, immigration spokesman at Denpasar International Airport, told AFP that Blue will be deported early Saturday morning. "Her flight will be at 12:30 am (Friday 1630 GMT)," Husnan said, adding more details would be provided later. Earlier on Friday, Billinger and an associate -- 27-year-old Liam Andrew Jackson -- were fined 200,000 rupiah (about $12) for breaking traffic regulations. "The defend...

In a video experiment that has gone viral online, a YouTuber demonstrated how easily safety protocols in artificial intelligence can be bypassed, prompting serious questions about AI safeguards. The footage shows a ChatGPT-powered robot named "Max" initially refusing a direct command to shoot the creator with a BB gun, but later performing the act after a seemingly minor change in the prompt. The experiment, conducted by the YouTube channel InsideAI, involved integrating an AI language model with a humanoid robot body. When first asked if it would shoot the presenter, the robot repeatedly declined and cited its built-in safety features. However, when the creator then asked the robot to role-play as one that would like to shoot him, the robot's behaviour changed instantly. At that moment, Max aimed the BB gun and fired, striking the presenter in the chest. Watch the video here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Digi...

A third of December has already passed, but the intense winter chill has not yet arrived in the Delhi-NCR region. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) released data on Thursday showing that the maximum temperature at Lodhi Road between Wednesday and Thursday morning (8:30 AM) was 25.4 degrees Celsius, which is 2.4 degrees Celsius above average. The minimum temperature was also 8.6 degrees Celsius, 0.6 degrees Celsius above average. This warmer-than-usual trend has continued throughout Delhi-NCR this month and is forecast to continue for the next week. Dr Naresh Kumar, a senior scientist at the India Meteorological Department, told NDTV, "The increase in cold weather depends on Western Disturbances, as these bring dry, cold northwesterly winds to Delhi and parts of Northwest India. There has been no active Western Disturbance this season so far, which is why a cold wave has not yet been recorded in Delhi-NCR and surrounding areas." According to the IMD forecast, a west...